Project renovation - more shopping and crazy cats! - Monday 27th August
What happened on Sunday you may be asking yourself, well to
be honest bugger all, we actually had a day off! Hooray!!!!
My sympathy for the cat has diminished somewhat, as when I
came into the Lounge I saw paw prints on my clean washing. John tried to
convince me I was going mad as the doors are now secure and all the windows
were shut! He soon changed his mind when he saw the cat had pooped in one of
the bedrooms, TWICE!!!!!! We have no idea how he got in, but he has certainly
made his feelings toward us very clear.
Off to the shop again, here’s a photo in case you don’t believe
we actually go, well more for Andy’s benefit to prove we go each time, it still
isn’t any better!
We also had the fun of taking the grinder back, it broke
after a week. It was easier than in the UK, but I have just found out that I have
been saying I speak, a French small pea! and not, I speak a small amount of French My “je parle le Francais petite pois”
should’ve been “je parle le Francais petite peu”!!!!!!!!! I had been so impressed with myself before it was pointed out to me, but it does explain why so many people smile at me.
Also did the weekly shop today – it cost 85 euro’s for
enough food for 3 for a week, 7 bottles of nice wine and a case of beer – and
people tried to convince us how expensive it was to live in France ha ha who’s
having the last laugh.
The second consumer unit went in today and all rooms have
plug sockets and working lights and switches, it feels really strange walking
into a room and being able to switch a light on, the house is starting to come
together now and its getting exciting all over again.
Sat in the upstairs lounge, John arrived with the wine and
Andy was getting ready to serve dinner, heard a massive clattering of plates
and assumed dinner was on the floor, jumped up to go and see if he was OK, when
the cat ran past me and dived through the hole under the bath, again not sure
who was more shocked, me or the cat!!!!! It turned out that Andy hadn’t dropped
dinner but the cat had ran around the kitchen jumped up on the work top and managed
to run across every plate before running up stairs. I saw him dart into the
bathroom and into the hole under the bath, the poor thing has obviously been
trapped in the house since yesterday, which now explains the poop and the
scratching that John heard during the night (but thought it better not to tell
me, which was probably a good idea with my over active imagination, a cat would
not have been my first thought).
The cat will not come out so I have left a trail of meat to
the top of the stairs and we will be leaving the door open tonight, its sods
law, we finally have a safe and secure house and are going to leave the doors
not only unlocked but open to let the cat out!
On a positive note Andy’s spag bol and homemade garlic bread
is the best – thank you
The house was all quiet, the cat was gone so time for bed,
Andy and John are sat having a drink and I have just started to drop off when I
heard 2 distinct meows!!!! Came down and asked if they had heard anything, Andy
tried to convince me it was on the radio and that my imagination is yet again
running wild, joined them for a brew and then we all heard the meowing, the
bloody cat was still under the bath!!!!! Andy was left to try and entice him out,
lots more ham and fresh water was given,
beginning to wonder if he might be happier under the bath with his little
feasts!
The cat finally left, we saw him sat further up the road, glaring at us, before turning his back and stalking off!
Top tips
1.
When locking the house make sure that there are
no wild animals in the house!
2.
Don’t believe people when they say it’s more expensive
to live in France, look around the different shops.
3.
When learning French be sure to get the
pronunciation correct or you may sound like a real fool!
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